Hi,
While integrating the git protocol into dub is complex, there is
a much much easier solution.
Github and bitbucket provides access to the source code,
including releases, branches and commits as archive files using
the http protocol.
Without counting the actual unzip/untar coding I assume more or
less 100 lines of additional coding is needed in dub.
In dub.json in addition to the existing path attribute of the
dependeny object a new attribute "url" has to be added. You can
specify here an url to a zip/tar.gz. This file has to be
downloaded and extracted. The extract path is then filled into
the existing path attribute of the dependency object.
The only issue is the untar/unzip logic...
This little tweak would make dub a lot more flexible like npm.
Kind regards
André

Hi,
While integrating the git protocol into dub is complex, there
is a much much easier solution.
Github and bitbucket provides access to the source code,
including releases, branches and commits as archive files using
the http protocol.
Without counting the actual unzip/untar coding I assume more or
less 100 lines of additional coding is needed in dub.
In dub.json in addition to the existing path attribute of the
dependeny object a new attribute "url" has to be added. You can
specify here an url to a zip/tar.gz. This file has to be
downloaded and extracted. The extract path is then filled into
the existing path attribute of the dependency object.
The only issue is the untar/unzip logic...
This little tweak would make dub a lot more flexible like npm.
Kind regards
André

Hi,
While integrating the git protocol into dub is complex, there
is a much much easier solution.
Github and bitbucket provides access to the source code,
including releases, branches and commits as archive files
using the http protocol.
Without counting the actual unzip/untar coding I assume more
or less 100 lines of additional coding is needed in dub.
In dub.json in addition to the existing path attribute of the
dependeny object a new attribute "url" has to be added. You
can specify here an url to a zip/tar.gz. This file has to be
downloaded and extracted. The extract path is then filled into
the existing path attribute of the dependency object.
The only issue is the untar/unzip logic...
This little tweak would make dub a lot more flexible like npm.
Kind regards
André

In my scenario I have github repositories stored on the company
github server but not on the public github server. Also running
an own dub registry server is not an option as I would have to
adapt the source code (settings are hard coded) and the license
type of dub registry is lgpl.
Kind regards
André

Hi,
While integrating the git protocol into dub is complex, there is a much
much easier solution.
Github and bitbucket provides access to the source code, including
releases, branches and commits as archive files using the http protocol.
Without counting the actual unzip/untar coding I assume more or less 100
lines of additional coding is needed in dub.
In dub.json in addition to the existing path attribute of the dependeny
object a new attribute "url" has to be added. You can specify here an
url to a zip/tar.gz. This file has to be downloaded and extracted. The
extract path is then filled into the existing path attribute of the
dependency object.
The only issue is the untar/unzip logic...
This little tweak would make dub a lot more flexible like npm.
Kind regards
André

I've built a prototype UI[1] for some code[0] to solve this exact problem.
It may seem complex, but you can't rely on HTTP download options for
easy access to repositories.
I would appreciate anyone taking the time to do the survey[1] (the
question mark) which has a couple of tasks to do. It'll give you the
basic idea of what I'm thinking UI wise.
[0] https://gist.github.com/rikkimax/4718740223748256d94b3b1474525012
[1] http://cattermole.co.nz/comp626/

I've built a prototype UI[1] for some code[0] to solve this
exact problem.
It may seem complex, but you can't rely on HTTP download
options for easy access to repositories.
I would appreciate anyone taking the time to do the survey[1]
(the question mark) which has a couple of tasks to do. It'll
give you the basic idea of what I'm thinking UI wise.
[0]
https://gist.github.com/rikkimax/4718740223748256d94b3b1474525012
[1] http://cattermole.co.nz/comp626/

Same for me;) I build a little console application (100 lines of
coding) which I call instead of dub. It allows me to have
following dub.json
{
"name": "test",
"dependencies": {
"sample1": {"url": "http://localhost:8080/zapp-sample1.zip"},
"sample2": {"path": "C:\\D\\projects\\test\\zapp-sample2.zip"},
}
}
The console application downloads/extracts the zip files, makes a
backup of the original dub.json, creates a new dub.json with the
adapted path attributes, calls dub and after that restoring the
original dub.json.
If you want to use dub with git repositories and you can't for
one or the other reason use the public github / public dub
registry this feature is really nice.
Kind regards
André